Saturday 14 June 2008

Tag, You're It! Colour Challenge


OMGosh, this working for a living is really exhausting and eating into my creative time!! I went into my new job all on my own on Monday - my predecessor left us last Friday and I'd only had about 2 hours handover altogether! By Wednesday evening my head was so full of 'stuff' whizzing around that I ended up falling asleep around tea-time!!! By Thursday I had done NOTHING with my stash then I suddenly remembered - EEEK!!! It's Friday tomorrow and I hadn't made my colour theme tag for Tag, You're It! so I had to get my ass into gear and get creating - quick!!! The colour theme, as picked by my lovely friend Sam is Olive, Aubergine and Ivory (couldn't colourise that one, it would leave you guessing!! LOL!) and I have to confess this is not a combination I have ever worked with before - at least not consciously. Anyway, here is my tag. The dress was stamped onto Ivory card (that's got that one covered!!! LOL!) and I painted it with an aubergine'y H20 (colour no. 2 out of the way!!) then I splodged a touch of lettuce adirondak ink around the edges which, before it dried, was an uncanny shade of olive. However, when it dried it turned iceberg so I found some olive coloured card to mat it onto. A couple of bits of bling and sparkle and Voila! A nice quick and relatively easy tag!! ;o)
Thanks for popping in! ;o)


9 comments:

  1. Oh it's sooo gorgeous, I love the little bit of sparkle you've added to the dress as well. Really elegant and sophisticated tag :) And well done on managing to make anything , let alone such a wonderful piece this week as I know it's been manic for you!

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  2. Wow great card for the challenge Anne and good luck with the new job

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  3. wow love that dress stamp! lovely elegant stamp/tag.

    I'm with Penny, I'm surprised you've made anything at all with all thats happened. Lets hope this week is at a much calmer pace...........xx

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  4. Hi Anne, thank you for your lovely comments. I already knew this colorcombo rocks ;o) Love your simple and elegant card. Beautiful dress by the way and ofcourse the added bling to the dress makes it really irresistable! And I know what you mean... before you know it, the next challenge should be up LOL. Weeks are really flying by (or is it because we grow old?).

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  5. Beautiful tag, love the most elegant colour combination.

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  6. Anne this is beautiful, you have made me want to get this stamp out now I haven't used it in ages!
    Love what you did with the dress

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  7. Lovely tag. I got my tab top idea from your tag. I also didn't have olive ink, so I colored in green and added a little black, so it turned olive ;-)

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  8. Oh, your tag is really beautiful!

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  9. "I have to confess this is not a combination I have ever worked with before - at least not consciously."

    I laffed out loud reading this, Anne!!! You always make me giggle though ...

    Love your completed tag! Such a shame; so much talent going to waste in a dang office somewhere. I'll bet you make the job fun for everyone else though!

    ~Big huggies!!

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